Week in pictures: From May Day rallies to Mosul clashes

A photo round-up of some of last week's key events, including protests in Indonesia, Brazil and Venezuela.

Fri May 05 2017 15:42:52 GMT+0000

Children stand near a barricade on Dutra road in Sao Jose dos Campos during a protest against President Michel Temer's proposed reform of Brazil's social security system. [Roosevelt Cassio/Reuters]

A member of the Iraqi federal police walks next to a destroyed house after their clashes with ISIL fighters in western Mosul, Iraq. [Muhammad Hamed/Reuters]

Workers try to remove razor wire preventing them from marching towards the presidential palace as riot police take a defensive position during a May Day rally in Jakarta, Indonesia. Thousands of people attended a rally urging the government to raise minimum wages, ban outsourcing practices, provide free healthcare and improve working conditions for workers in the country. [Dita Alangkara/AP Photo]

Displaced Iraqis from Mosul wait to cross the Tigris by boat at the village of Thibaniya after a bridge was temporarily closed. [Muhammad Hamed/Reuters]

Shar Banu, 65, grandmother of Reaz Uddin, 18, who was beaten to death by a mob on Sunday night, cries outside her home in Naramari village, about 140km east of Gauhati, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. Two Muslim men, including Reaz Uddin, were beaten to death in northeastern India over allegations of cow theft, the latest in a series of similar attacks across the country. Human Rights Watch said in a report last week that since Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government took office at least 10 Muslims, including a 12-year-old-boy, have been killed in mob attacks in seven separate incidents related to allegations over cows. [Anupam Nath/AP Photo]

Children wearing a lantern headband rest before a Lotus Lantern parade in celebration of the birthday of Buddha in Seoul, South Korea. [Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters]

A protester blows a whistle during a demonstration near the Turkish embassy in Berlin, Germany, on World Freedom Press Day. [Clemens Bilan/EPA]

Pope Francis delivers a speech at the International Peace Conference in Cairo, Egypt. The pope's two-day pilgrimage to Egypt was aimed at lifting the spirits of Christians in the Middle East, whose numbers have rapidly dwindled in recent decades owing to war, displacement and emigration. Sitting to his right is Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, the pre-eminent institute of Islamic learning in the Sunni Muslim world. [Amr Nabil/AP Photo]

A Cameroonian United Nations peacekeeper guards women from the Central African Republic as they arrive in the village of Bambara after fleeing Zike village. [Baz Ratner/Reuters]

Demonstrators clash with riot police during a rally against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in the capital, Caracas. [Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters]